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Yesterday I guess the hell froze over, AGAIN :) Apple have released firmware update, AS WELL AS special utility to help in installation of Windows XP SP2 on Intel-based Macs. The new firmware is said to add support for BIOS (originally only EFI was supported), and the utility called Bootcamp allows you to painfully make Windows partition on your Mac as well as burn a CD with all required drivers to run Windows (including full support for graphics drivers!!!)

Now to the installation.. I tried to install it yesterday, but didn't have any luck yet. There were some problems with the Bootcamp repartitioning my hard disk. Some files could not be moved, as I was told. Seems like the problem is with some big files for which the utility can not find enough free continuous space (or something like that??). I tried to boot into safe mode and login as root, as well as moving as many files as possible to my external 80Gb disk, without any luck. So today I will be backing up my whole disk contents to another harddisk (of my old PowerBook connected in target mode), and will try repartitioning again. Hopefully it'll work this time because I have F.E.A.R. waiting for me and I don't want to make it too lonely ;)

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